Teachers learn value of science, math, tech

ALAMOSA — The path to improving science, math and technology education across the state might, at first blush, conjure images of laboratories, computers and scientific equipment.

But for a group of 36 teachers Monday at Adams State University, that task meant playing with quantities of Play-Doh that would make a first-grader green with envy.

The exercise was intended to demonstrate the size disparities among the planets in the Earth’s solar system including a softball-sized Jupiter and a Pluto that was a fraction of the size of a pencil eraser.

The two weeks of classes the teachers will take part in, along with a yearlong follow-up once they go back to their home districts, is part of a federally funded Adams State program that runs through 2017.